Production of a film, if it is not a deliberately successful product, is a huge risk for the studio and everyone involved in the shooting. Sometimes this risk is not justified and the tape fails, and sometimes on the contrary - it shoots.
There are also a number of projects that have not even been given a chance to even be born, so the world will never know what would come of it.
We bring to your attention 10 films that were planned, but did not see the light of day.
10. Mortal Kombat 3
Although the first part of Mortal Kombat was coldly received by critics, the audience liked it. Now, after a couple of decades, this film is considered one of the best adaptations of video games, and it is about the first part.
The sequel, from which they expected to work on the bugs, turned out to be much worse than the original and was scolded by everyone, without exception: the press and the audience.
The cherry on the cake, or rather the last nail in the coffin lid, was the box office failure, which put an end to the third part, the shooting of which was planned.
Negotiations were conducted with the actors, the director was sought, there was even a draft script, but the world did not see the results of all this.
9. Halo
In the middle of zero hopes, video game fans for high-quality film adaptation were at their peak, because Microsoft decided to transfer their Halo series to the big screen. To do this, a good screenwriter Alex Garland was hired, previously noted for working on the film “28 Days Later,” and Peter Jackson himself appeared in the producers.
Unfortunately, the movie studios could not agree with Microsoft on the work process: the latter wanted to take an active part in the filming, while the studios were against it.
As a result, the film was never shot, and now the game series should become the basis for the television series. Also not bad, given the level of modern TV, but still not the ultimate dream.
8. World War Z 2
The first part of the film, which for some reason was called “War of the Worlds Z”, was created with difficulty: the script was repeatedly rewritten, there were problems with the police at the shooting sites, and the production budget was prohibitively increased.
Under such conditions, all the hope was that the picture will show itself well at the box office, which ultimately happened: 540 million with a budget of 190 - although this is not a success, but still an acceptable result.
It was decided to shoot the second part, which was supposed to be released in 2019, but a series of problems began again: they could not find a screenwriter, director, agree on a shooting schedule with leading actors, etc.
In the end, when they seemed to have agreed with David Fincher, they decided to cover up the production of the sequel.
There are still ghostly chances for him to come out, but they are very ghostly.
7. Hot zone
This film had every chance of becoming one of the main releases of the mid-90s: a sci-fi thriller with Ridley Scott in the director's chair and Jody Foster with Robert Redford in the lead roles - what else is needed for success?
Strange as it may seem, the project was destroyed just by star actors: they constantly made changes to the script, which was written for a long time and with a scratch, and when it seemed to have approved the final version, Jody Foster decided to leave home. This happened 2 weeks before the start of filming, but the creators managed to agree with Meryl Streep, but not for long: after a couple of days, she also refused the role.
The plot was to talk about the Ebola virus, which only monkeys suffer from, and in people it causes various mutations when infected.
6. American tragedy
Sergey Eisenstein is one of the greatest directors in the history of world cinema: his films “Battleship Potemkin” and “Alexander Nevsky” have gone down in history forever. In the first half of the last century, he went on a trip to America and Europe, sharing his experience and adopting the skills of Western masters.
In 1930, he signed a contract with Paramount Studio for the film adaptation of Theodor Dreiser’s novel “American Tragedy,” but the script he wrote seemed to the management too depressing, so the project was never implemented.
5. Spider-Man 4
Sam Raimi’s trilogy about Spider-Man is loved by fans of the hero much more than subsequent restarts, but not everyone knows that there were not three films planned, but four. The director signed a contract with the studio and they managed to persuade Toby Maguire once again put on a superhero costume, but then the production hell began.
At first, the studio could not agree with the actor, then the problems with the script began, followed by the failure to agree with Kirsten Dunst, and in the end, Sam Raimi simply left the project. The studio had no choice but to cancel the picture.
4. Superman is alive
In 1998, Tim Burton was due to begin filming a solo film about Superman with Nicolas Cage in the title role. The director hatched this project for a year, but the studio covered it 3 weeks before the start.
Cage was the most upset, who since childhood has been a fan of this hero (in 2005 he named the son of Kal-El), but his sadness was slightly tempered by compensation of $ 20 million (according to rumors).
3. Napoleon
It was supposed to be the largest film in the career of the great director Stanley Kubrick, which he planned to shoot immediately after the Space Odyssey.
Having worked out the plot, having studied Napoleon’s life from and to, he, unfortunately, did not receive the “green light” from any of the studios. Everyone understood that tens and even hundreds of millions that might not have paid off would have to be spent on such a historical epic.
2. Connected
Sergey Bodrov Jr. never positioned himself as an actor. Without an acting education, he always said that he was closer to directing, in which he managed to prove himself on the first try: the film "Sisters" was really good.
“The Messenger” was supposed to be his second work, but because of the tragedy of September 20, 2002, which claimed the life of Sergey, this never happened.
1.900 days
The cult director Sergio Leone hatched the idea of a film about the blockade of Leningrad for about 20 years, but reached its implementation only in the second half of the 80s. Just imagine, he agreed with the Soviet Union and received permission to shoot in the real Leningrad, and he wanted to call Robert De Niro for the main role.
He even found the money, as much as $ 100 million, but fate decreed otherwise: the director died 2 days before the signing of the financing contract, and without it the project was doomed.